The Fourth of July flooding had an outsized effect not just on the Hill Country but also on rain-starved Texas cities like ...

UNCCD's landmark new World Drought Atlas depicts the systemic nature of drought risks through dozens of maps, infographics, and case studies. It illustrates how drought risks are interconnected ...

Parts of the world’s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought. Amazon rivers in Brazil, including the Negro River and Madeira River, have fallen to record low water levels.

There's a drought in the West. Here's what you need to know about climate change, heat waves, wildfires, and more.

Groundwater loss isn’t just a California problem: According to a recent study by researchers at NASA and the University of California-Irvine, humans are depleting more than half of the world’s ...

How has drought in the United States worsened over the last 25 years? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers used data from the U.S. Drought ...

As drought conditions have worsened in 2021, hundreds of stream and river locations are experiencing below-average flow. More than 50 percent of the western monitoring stations reported lighter ...

Study finds 70 percent of the world's trees, in both wet and dry habitats, will suffer from climate change-induced drought.

Nearly 150 million Americans are impacted by the ongoing drought, according to the US Drought Monitor.Its map released at the end of October showed more than 54 percent of the contiguous US is in ...

Severe drought punishing the U.S.'s midsection has sent corn prices soaring by almost 23 percent, and expectations of worsened crop prospects in Russia because of dry weather sent world wheat ...

The United States has been like a patch of drought in an otherwise waterlogged world over the past several months. And it may take flooding rainfall to reverse the long-standing dryness. During ...

From 1997 to 2009, Australia faced the worst drought in the country’s recorded history. In Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people located in southeastern Australia, water levels dropped to an ...